UMass-Lowell 7 UMass 4 (Saturday 2/18/95)
Mullins Center-Amherst, MA
Attendance 4,118  Capacity: 8,389  Avg: about 3,400
 
Scoring                          1  2  3  T
UMass-Lowell(14-15-4, 9-10-1)    3  3  1  7
UMass(5-23-2, 3-17)              1  0  3  4
 
First Period:
Scoring
UML Nicholishen (Mahoney, Sbrocca) 4:56
UML Mahoney (Sbrocca, Bullock) 8:41
UML Bullock (Campbell, Concannon) PPG 13:39
UM  Cahill (Corcoran, Perry) 14:27
 
Penalties
UML Kriss (Interference) 10:28
UM  O'Connell (Elbowing) 12:56
UML Botto (Roughing, Hitting After the Whistle) 14:46
UM  Cahill (Roughing, Hitting After the Whistle) 14:46
UML Sandholm (interference) 15:48
UML Brown (Cross-Checking) 19:30
UM  Hooper (Hitting After the Whistle) 19:30
 
Second Period:
Scoring
UML Basaraba (Sbrocca) 4:45
UML Bullock (Campbell) PPG 16:38
UML Sandholm (Brown, Sbrocca) 19:52
 
Penalties (Just a few!!)
UM  O'Connell (Slashing) 2:34
UML Salsman (Hitting After the Whistle) 5:15
UML Henderson (Hitting After the Whistle) 5:15
UM  Giusto (Hitting After the Whistle) 5:15
UML Hayes (Roughing) 9:56
UML Nicholishen (Hitting After the Whistle) 10:17
UM  Perry (Hitting After the Whistle) 10:17
UML Kriss (Hitting After the Whistle, Roughing, Misconduct) 10:17
UM  Hooper (Hitting After the Whistle, Roughing, Misconduct) 10:17
UML Campbell (Cross-Checking) 10:39
UM  Giusto (Holding) 13:03
UM  O'Connor (Slashing) 15:05
UM  Evans (Roughing) 15:30
UML Basaraba (Slashing) 17:08
UM  Giusto (Cross-Checking) 17:08
UML Sbrocca (Hitting After the Whistle) 17:39
UM  Holland (Hitting After the Whistle) 17:39
UM  Manganaro (Interference) 17:43
UM  Corcoran (Misconduct) 17:43
UM  Corcoran (Game Misconduct) 17:53
 
Third Period:
Scoring
UM  Fawcett (O'Connell, Holland) PPG 2:24
UML Sbrocca (Basaraba, Brown) PPG 9:59
UM  Norris SHG 15:00
UM  Cahill (Norris, Smith) PPG 19:28
 
Penalties
UML Nicholishen (Holding) 1:17
UM  Giusto (Roughing) 1:17
UML Campbell (Hooking) 5:06
UM  Giusto (Roughing) 8:13
UM  O'Connor (Interference) 12:52
UM  Holland (Slashing) 13:52
UM  Manganaro (Elbowing) 16:52
UML Sbrocca (Interference) 18:11
 
Saves By Period   1    2    3    T
Lindsay-UML       6    9    7   22
Regan-UM         12   12   13   37
 
Penalties
UML 19 for 46 mins.
UM  22 for 58 mins.
 
Powerplays
UML 3 for 10
UM  2 for 9
 
3 Stars
1) Sbrocca-UML (Goal, 4 Assists)
2) Bullock-UML (2 Goals, Assist)
3) Cahill-UM (2 Goals)
 
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        Whoever said that a tough physical game can't be played on an
Olypic sized sheet? This one was downright vicious and ugly, with the two
teams combining for 41 penalties for 104 minutes, three misconducts and a
game misconduct.
        UMass-Lowell stormed out of the gate, putting up a 2-0 lead 8:41
into the contest on goals by Mike Nickolishen and Jon Mahoney.
Nicholishen put in a pretty cross-ice pass, while Mahoney collected the
puck in a corner, skated along the goalline and deeked Regan upstairs.
        The festivities began around the 12:30 mark as Jon Jacques of the
Minutemen was bringing the puck up ice, along the boards and looking
across ice for a winger. Meanwhile a penalty on Aaron Kriss (6-2, 204)
had just expired and he went straight for Jacques (5-11, 185) who was
about three strides away and looking in the oposite direction. It was a
clean hit, but devistating. I haven't seen anyone get popped like that in
a while. Jacques, bleeding profusely, suffered a broken nose and did not
return.
        From that point things started to get physical, but before the
period expired, Bullock and Cahill would each score. Bullock made it 3-0
for the River Hawks on a powerplay with a 35 foot snap shot. Cahill
opened the UMass scoring as he put the rebound of a Brian Corcoran shot
past Lindsay.
        After Shannon Basaraba made the score 4-1, the Minutemen decided
to extract their revenge on Kriss. After elbowing Blair Wagar in front of
the UMass bench, Dale Hooper and other Minutemen joined in the fracas.
Gloves were dropped and punches thrown, but no game misconducts arose
from the melee, which needed a good five minutes to sort out (and even
then they missed the origional two for the elbow). 70 penalty minutes
were assesed in the period by referees Frank Cole and Jim Bunyon. 28 on
Lowell and 42 on UMass (11 short of a Hockey East record).
        Bullock (who passed Holzinger for the national scoring lead) made
it 5-1 on a PPG strike from 30 feet out, and just before the end of the
period, Sandholm got Lowell's sixth, on the doorstep.
        Chris Fawcett, Warren Norris and Cahill all tallied in the third
for UMass, maiking the final 7-4, Sbrocca getting Lowell's final goal.
Norris' goal was a pretty shorthanded breakaway set up by a
UMass-Lowell caugh up. Cahill's second of the night was on a Norris rebound.
        All in all I thought that Lowell played much like the team that I
grew accustomed to watching last season when they went to the NCAAs.
Bullock (who cut his hair) proved that it wasn't a Sampson thing, by
putting on a small display for the 4,118 at Mullins. Sbrocca likewise had
a srong offensive game. Brian Regan, although not spectacular, played
pretty well considering that the team was playing without defensemen Brad
Norton (Concusion last night), Brian Corcoran (Game Misconduct) or Dale
Hooper for most of the night (16 penalty minutes). Two goals were power
play and others were tough plays. Regan never gave up and despite
trailing big in the third, made three saves on a trio of Lowell
breakaways. Although Bullock did get a pair of softies, he played well
overall. Sbrocca's goal actually deflected in off of a defenseman's skate
as he attempted a cross-crease pass to Eric Brown on a powerplay.
        UMass will finish with three games against Northeastern, while
UMass-Lowell will play two in Alfond this weekend and close out their
regular season back home against Providence.